So how does the British government know if you are illegally watching OTA broadcasts? How is this enforced? Is there something in the TV that won't let you watch if you're not licensed? You can still use your TV in the UK, but the BBC has a fleet of vans that roam around the UK, detecting who's wat...

radioandtventhusiast wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 26, 2019 9:57 pm

WNWO is extremely low tech. I still think 48 is the worst technical-wise. 24 is a very close second though. This is not the first time 24's had technical problems recently. It ought to be a small-market station.

WNWO in recent days had made the old WDHO look good.

Because to Sinclair, Toledo IS a smaller market. WNDU in South Bend has higher priority.... Unless there was a hostile takeover or a sale that I did not hear about... NBC 16 (WNDU - This is home!) is not Sinclair. Fox 28 and CBS 22 are. Actually, WSBT now carries Fox on its 22.2 subchannel. WSJV, t...

radioandtventhusiast wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 22, 2019 9:19 pm

CurlyHoward wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 22, 2019 8:33 pm

Because to Sinclair, Toledo IS a smaller market. WNDU in South Bend has higher priority...

WNDU is not owned by Sinclair, but rather by Gray, which owns WTVG.

WSBT is the Sinclair-owned station in South Bend, affiliated with CBS and Fox.

Back in the early days of radio, stations IDed with their transmitter location. One of the more famous ones was WJJD Mooseheart, where the T antenna was located, at the Loyal Order Of Moose Headquarters. That actually makes more sense to use the transmitter location. The idea of just serving one to...

It was Making It with Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman that was preempted. Its like American idol or one of the baking shows where contestants make arts and crafts and one gets voted off the show each week. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Not to be confused with "Makin' It", a disco-flavored sitcom flop from 40 ...

Some examples of the old IDs. 12-WJRT-TV Flint Saginaw Bay City WSMH channel 66 also used "Flint / Saginaw / Bay City" in its IDs. 100.3 WHTZ Newark New York (slurred to sound like New York New York) Not to be confused with Newark, New York state -- a village near Rochester. While WHTZ's ID would p...

Turkeytop wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 18, 2019 9:34 pm

A pop up prevents me from opening the link.

Things like that disgust me -- either buy a subscription I'll never use beyond that one article, or allow crappy "one weird trick" ads with the possible risk that they may be infected with a virus.

I often ponder why, instead of not showing the shows that get pre-empted, WDIV don't move them to 4-2 or 4-3 at the same time. Maybe they fear everyone will just change channels and not watch what they have replaced it with. Exactly -- they did not want to compete with themselves by putting its nor...

Some Guy from Toledo wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 03, 2019 8:39 pm

Well at least Detroit has another Spanish language channel, for now.

Too bad it's not a heavy hitter like Univision (which Detroit had two different affiliates in the past) or Telemundo (which never affiliated in Detroit).

Curiously, my Spectrum system serving Rockland and Central Maine offers Radio-Canada from CKSH Sherbrooke (as well as TVA outlet CHLT), but no English-language CBC, from CBMT or otherwise. Odd they wouldn't provide a CBC station, yet pick up Radio-Canada and TVA. Noticed this image while Googling a...

The show was on CH9 Windsor, so there are a few 50-somethings in Toledo that know that recorder song as the drawbridge goes up and down and the Friendly Giant invites you to pick a chair.... speaking of which, is that a specific song and is there a copy of it somewhere? Don't forget us 40-something...

MWmetalhead wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 02, 2019 6:25 pm

Was TCT the prior owner of the station?

Yes they were, and they still program a subchannel:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WDWO-CD

I touched on this earlier, wondering why CBMT was so widely available on Michigan cable systems outside of the Detroit area - instead of CBET. I believe the answer basically boiled down to easy satellite availability of CBMT... At one time, I believe, CKLW-TV / CBET was distributed on the same micr...

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Thu Oct 31, 2019 10:27 am

WOHO wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 31, 2019 10:25 am

Agreed: AntennaTV deserves a quality home in Toledo, Cozi too. Enjoy the Johnny Carson reruns and Quantum Leap, etc....

WNWO should add at least one of them...……..

Quite a few Sinclair stations carry Antenna TV, so there should be no reason not to pick it up.